In The Sierra: Mountain Writings - Couverture souple

Rexroth, Kenneth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081121902X ISBN 13 : 9780811219020

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

Over the course of his life, Kenneth Rexroth wrote about the Sierra Nevada better than anyone. Progressive in terms of environmental ethics and comparable to the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Aldo Leopard, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder, Rexroth's poetry and prose described the way Californians have always experienced and loved the High Sierra. Contained in this marvelous collection are transcendent nature poems, as well as prose selections from his memoir An Autobiographical Novel, newspaper columns, published and unpublished WPA guidebooks, and correspondence. Famed science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has compiled a gift for lovers of mountains and poetry both. This volume also contains Robinson's introduction and notes, photographs of Rexroth, a map of Rexroth's travels, and an amazing astronomical analysis of Rexroth's poems by the fiction writer Carter Scholz.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Poet-essayist Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982) was a high-school dropout, disillusioned ex-Communist, pacifist, anarchist, rock-climber, critic and translator, mentor, Catholic-Buddhist spiritualist and a prominent figure of San Francisco's Beat scene. He is regarded as a central figure of the San Francisco Renaissance and is among the first American poets to explore traditional Japanese forms such as the haiku.

Kim Stanley Robinson is the Hugo and Nebula prize-winning author of the Mars Trilogy and a trilogy of novels about climate change that go under the title Science in the Capital.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081121902X
• ISBN 13: 9780811219020
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Éditeur: Robinson Kim Stanley
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